US immigrant, Leonardus's (D.10.), forefathers came from the Dutch Flemish Region,
today West Flanders Belgium.
His father Leonardus (D.) moved in 1805 from Lapscheure -Belgium to the Village of Biervliet
in Zeeland- Holland.
He emigrate with wife and 3 sons to New York State, November 1883. In 1885 they moved to Illinois
and the family start farming west of Manito-IL, USA.

Flanders, Flemish Region in BELGIUM, Dutch speaking.

Post and Telegraph office - IJzendijke 1895.

Clarence Palmer, a descent of Leonardus van Pamelen visit the place of birth
IJzendijke (Isendieka) of his grandfather
Augustus (August) van Pamelen in 1997.D.10.13.3.e.

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Two families in the Manito-area IL are descendants from Dutch and Belgium forefathers who immigrated
from the Netherlands in 1883.
Those two families were:de Zutter and van Pamelen.The American immigration officer wrote their names down as:DeSutterand van Palmer

Flemish fieldworkers.

As fieldworker you only earn payment in summertime, work on different farms, sleep on the farm in a
seperate barn without heating, water and light. Most people were not strong and were hungry. Reason
for emigration was principally the potato-famine in the Flemish Region which started in 1845 with an
illness in the potatofields and last till 1854, seeFlemish
History >>

Big potato-fields got ill, the leafs of the potatoes got dark spots and the tubers started to rot.
How to control this illness was not known in that time

A lot of poor fieldworkers and small farmers, settled East of Moline-IL, in Atkinson, Geneseo and
Kewanee-IL around 1880 and also in Grandview (now Ghent), Minnesota. They got forest-grounds in
homestead, it became their property after they had the land reclaimed for agriculture. They build
sawing-mills and the pine logs were used to build houses. On the red clay they sow wheat and corn.
A part of the land became grassland for their live-stock. They did it the Dutch-way, the farmer sold
his grain and straw, his wife took care of their lifestock by selling the milk, eggs, fruit and
vegetables to the shops in the Villages.

Palmer -van Pamelen- family history.
Based on stories written by descendants, compiled with Dutch info by webmaster.

Leonardus
van Pamelen (D.10.) and his spouse Hendrika Hamelijnck lived in the Village of Biervliet, the
Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland. The 2 oldest sons, Engelbertus (D.10.1.) and Venantius
(D.10.4.) are born there, 2 children died infancy. They were pour, not strong and hungry, course
the potato-illness and famine in Flanders from 1845 till 1854 (see 'Flemish History'). The family
moved to the Village of IJzendijke (Isendieka) February 11, 1854, 7 children were born there, 3 of
them died in infancy and 2 at the age of 1-4 year. The family moved to the city of Schoondijke, May
15, 1872, with the two still living sons Petrus (D.10.6.) and Augustus (D.10.13.). Leonardus
and his oldest two sons worked in summertime on different farms.
The family moved again January 29, 1873 to Aardenburg and Venantius left the family April 13, 1873
to work in Zuidzande where Petrus joined him for a period of time. The Palmers with the two youngest
sons moved in May 1874 to the city of Oostburg and May 1st.1875 to Schoondijke. Son Venantius worked
on a farm in Waterlandkerkje from May 1879 till November 1879 and left the family after wintertime
again on May 30, 1881 to work on a farm in St.Kruis and to meet his bride to be. He married her in
April 1883 and they lived and worked in Schoondijke-Holland for the rest of their life. The
Leonardus family with three of the four sons emigrate to New York State in November 1883, at that
time young son Augustus was at the age of 14. The Leonardus Palmer family who worked and saved for
almost 15 months in New York State (probably around Rochester) moved to Manito- Illinois early 1884
and ended up on a fourty-acre track of untilled land west of Manito-IL known as the Robert Morris
place. Engelbertus returned to Holland early 1885 and married Nathalia de Zutter in May 1885. They
lived almost 4 years in Aardenburg-Holland and they emigrate to Manito-IL to join his parents and
brothers in Manito-IL, October 1888. Leonardus died in 1896 and his sons Engelbertus, Petrus and
Augustus continue the farmwork on the farm. Engelbertus (Engle Bert) van Palmer bought his own farm
implements in 1904 and the Palmers began farming for themselfs at the old Ben Schenck farm on
Timberlane Terrace, Mason County IL. The Palmer family lived 27 years on their own farm at
Timberlane Terrace, Manito-IL. Augustus married in 1894 and he settled on a farm in the Topeka-IL
area. Petrus, who married in 1891, 3rd son of Leonardus and Hendrika van Pamelen left the Palmer
farm in ~1908 for Westport Brown County-SD. His descendants are now living in South Dakota and
Oregon-USA. Engelbertus died in January 1921 and son Francis took over the familyfarm, he start
raising cattle on the Palmer family farm and delivering milk to Manito residents.

Palmer and DeSutter family relationship.

Augustus
de Sutter (I.B.1. on DeSutter family), Nathalia's brother, lived in Aardenburg-Holland with
his spouse Ludovica de Bruijne.
He and their two oldest sons Augustus and Ludovicus de Zutter flay the wheat by hand all winter and
it led to their dissatisfaction.
The boys deciding they would like to leave Aardenburg and come where Aunt Nathalia and Uncle
Engle Palmer were engaged in farming on the old Ben Schenck farm, now Timberlane Terrace, Mason
County, Illinois-USA. Louis DeSutter wrote a letter to the Palmer's and received a letter back dated
October 1st.1904: "Dearest Brother, Sister Ludovica and Nephew Louis we received your letter
and was glad to hear Nephew Louis would like to come over if we would send a ticket. We will be glad
to help you all we can. You can pay me back by working for me and my son Francis will teach you
English and I the farm work. We hope to see each other soon".
Signed: E. B. van Pamelen, Manito-IL.

Louis DeSutter bought also tickets for his brother August's family from Maldegem-Belgium and they
left Holland from Antwerp-Belgium on the vessel SS Zeeland. The DeSutter boys arrived in Manito-IL,
March 1905 and start working for Engle Bert van Palmer.
Their parents Augustus and Ludovica and younger brother Chris from Aardenburg came over to Manito-IL
in April/May 1906. After a couple of years working for the Palmers, August DeSutter got a job at the
Wiedmar Chemical Company and Louis returned to Holland to marry. He joined August working for the
dirt company after he returned from Holland in 1908. During the years, both brothers bought a lot of
land in Tazewell and Mason County-IL and start farming on their own farm in 1921 at Rural Route,
Manito Mason County, and Spring Lake Township Tazewell County - Illinois, USA.
See B.1.1. and B.1.2., the DeSutter
family.

The
move of forefathers van Pamelen, 1745 - 1883.

Laurentius van Pamelen (C.) moved in 1745 from Ruiselede to Lapscheure-Belgium.1805_____ trail of his son Leonardus (D.) to
Biervliet-Holland, 1854 - - - - - trail of son Leonardus
(D.10.) 1822 - 1883.
West- and East-Flanders became a part of Belgium in 1839 (green) and Zeelandic-Flanders a part of
the Netherlands (yellow).
The name 'Holland' stands for the Western provinces North- and South Holland in the Netherlands in
the Middle-Ages.The map shows the Southern part of The Kingdom of the Netherlands 1814 - 1839.
Read the compleet Dutch and Flemish history on US Immigrants
>>

I took the opportunity to dig up the past and ensure your children know their
ancestors.

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